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Benson saves April Troost from committing suicide, but feels responsible when Troost dies during the trial of the man she accuses of raping her and getting her pregnant. It isn't long before detectives learn that Barclay Pallister wasn't the only man April picked up in a bar who has no recollection of sleeping with her, and the squad realizes that Troost was no victim. Their search takes them from prospective parents looking to adopt her child to the men she drugged and accosted to the sperm center she used to work at, which ends up at the center of the case. The sperm center is run by Troost's father, a Doctor who wants to create a "better human being".

This episode concludes with the Law & Order episode, "Flaw," which aired Wednesday, September 28, 2005.

Bobby Flay is the real-life husband of former "SVU" cast member Stephanie March.

This is far from the first time that NBC has featured a female character who used date-rape drugs to rape her male partners. In the mid-1990s, the character of Sami Brady on "Days of our Lives" used a date-rape drug to accost her sister's fiancé, and in 2004, the character of Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald on "Passions" used a date-rape drug to accost her former fiancé in the hopes of getting pregnant.

Nitpick: Since all plea bargains are subject to the discretion of the court and not the ADA, it's unlikely that April Troost could just walk off because Novak said that she could, especially considering she was still under arrest.

Nitpick: No one in Barclay Pallister's laboratory is wearing eye protection, which could get him in serious trouble with OSHA if they ever find out about it.

They were able to charge McManus with stealing sperm, but in "Waste" and "Birthright", they were unable to charge doctors with stealing women's eggs because 'body parts have no monetary value'. If that holds true for eggs, then it should also hold true for sperm. (This can be explained by Olivia asking the woman how much she paid for the sperm. Since the woman paid a specific amount of money, it gave the sperm a specific price. The eggs on the other hand, were removed to perform a procedure, and all costs involved were placed on the procedure, not the eggs themselves.)